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The Gangland History Podcast, hosted by history buff and mob aficionado, Jacob Stoops. He tells the true crime biographies of real life mobsters and dives deep into the plots, sub-plots, and real facts behind Cosa Nostra as well as popular mob films and television shows. Formerly called The Members-Only Podcast.
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The Impact: Coronavirus and Organized Crime

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

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The Impact: Coronavirus and Organized Crime is a special edition weekly podcast from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. We'll look at how the ongoing COVID-19 virus is impacting on organized crime around the world and how the illicit economy may affect our ability to respond to the virus. We'll be covering cyber crime, the illegal wildlife trade, counterfeit medicines, drug trafficking, human smuggling, corruption and human trafficking. This podcast uses the followi ...
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In this episode, special guest Tony Taouk and myself discuss the career of infamous Philadelphia mob lawyer, Robert "Bobby" Simone (1933 - 2007). Robert F. Simone was known for winning a string of difficult cases for clients that included members of Philadelphia's organized-crime family such as Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, Philip "Crazy" Phil Le…
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In this episode, the first of a two-part series, we discuss the life and times of Paul "The Waiter" Ricca, who was born Felice De Lucia in Apricena, Italy in 1898. Paul Ricca was one of the most powerful underworld figures in the history of Cosa Nostra in this country, his career spanning from the Capone Era into the 1970's. For over 30 years, Ricc…
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"To the rules that hold us together" In this episode, we discuss a comprehensive 1967 FBI Intelligence Report distributed across all FBI field offices within the United States. This report provided an overall picture of the American Cosa Nostra across the entire country and provided reports, taken from the accounts of 190+ informants, around the fo…
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In this episode, the third of this series, we cover several mob hits that occurred in and around Philadelphia's Bruno Crime Family of LCN during the 1960's. This video focuses on the battle that occurred for control of Philadelphia's Teamsters Local 107, between the Mafia and law-abiding members of the union. Our goal of these episodes is to dispel…
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In this episode, the second of this series, we cover several mob hits that occurred in and around Philadelphia's Bruno Crime Family of LCN during the 1960's. Our goal of these episodes is to dispel the myth that Angelo Bruno—"The Docile Don"—was a non-violent Boss. In fact, evidence will show that he likely handed down many hit contracts, which we …
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In this episode, we cover several mob hits that occurred in and around Philadelphia's Bruno Crime Family of LCN during the 1960's. Our goal of these episodes is to dispel the myth that Angelo Bruno—"The Docile Don"—was a non-violent Boss. In fact, evidence will show that he likely handed down many hit contracts, which we will go over in detail over…
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In this episode, featuring myself and Australian lawyer Tony Taouk, we discuss the life and times of George Remus who was famously dubbed, "The King of the Bootleggers" in the 1920's. George Remus, born in 1878, was a German-born American lawyer who was probably most famously well-known as a bootlegger during the early days of Prohibition, and who …
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 9 of Episode 57, we finish up our look into deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Last week, we talked about the complete history of the Compton Executioners. But on today's show we'll be talking about a couple different things. We'll talk about some lesser known groups in the LASD that I haven't touc…
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 8 of Episode 57, we continue our look into deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Last week, we finished up our look into the Banditos, which is likely the most pervasive deputy gang still active today. But on today's show, we'll talk about the complete history of the Compton Executioners, which is one…
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In this episode, we again discuss Joseph Barbara Sr., the mobster who famously hosted the ill-fated Apalachin Mob Meeting in Apalachin, New York. Part Three covers the events leading up to the disastrous Apalachin meeting in 1957 and the fallout.Part One: https://youtu.be/NGHgoGlYOgwPart Two: https://youtu.be/2h1ERPB0sCUIn this final installment of…
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 7 of Episode 57, we continue our look into deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Last week, we talked about the rise of the Banditos in the East L.A. Station , their take over of the station, and how it allowed them to abuse their co-workers. But on today's show, we'll talk about their reign of terror…
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We sat down to talk with Gary Jenkins, who is a retired Kansas City Police Detective, lawyer, as well as the host of the extremely popular mob podcast, Gangland Wire.In this episode, we discuss the following topics: His early years, family, and upbringing What made him want to join the Kansas City Police Department His promotion to Detective within…
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 6 of Episode 57, we continue our look into deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Last time, we talked about the run of 2 incredibly violent gangs, in the Spartans and Jump Out Boys. But on today's show, we once again have to go back to the East Los Angeles Station, the home of the Banditos, the most r…
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 5 of Episode 57, we continue our look into deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, last time, we talked about the takeover of Deputy Gangs within the L.A. County jail system by the 2000 and 3000 Boys. But on today's show, we'll be talking about what i like to call the 3rd generation of deputy gangs, tha…
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In this episode, we again discuss Joseph Barbara Sr., the mobster who famously hosted the ill-fated Apalachin Mob Meeting in Apalachin, New York. In this second of a three-part series, we discuss: Barbara's move towards legitimate business and establishment of several bottling companies including the Endicott Beverage Company, the Mission Beverage …
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 58, I Interview Aiden Gabor, a former associate of the New Jersey Based DeCavalcante Crime Family, police officer, and informant for the Department of Justice, who would bring down numerous corrupt public officials, including a head of detectives, a police commissioner, and even a mayor, but more then that, his st…
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In this episode, we discuss Roy Marcus Cohn (1927-1986) with professional attorney, Tony Taouk of Magna Carta Lawyers in Sydney, Australia.Tony and I walk through Roy Cohn's history, and Tony brings an attorney's perspective to some of Cohn's vicious tactics, personal life, as well as areas where he displayed both pure brilliance and borderline dia…
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 4 of Episode 57, we continue or look into deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, last week we talked about the rise of the Century Station Regulators, and how they led a new generation of deputy gangs that preceded the fist generation gangs, like the Lynwood Vikings. But on today's show, we're gonna be…
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In this episode, we discuss Joseph Barbara Sr., the mobster who famously hosted the ill-fated Apalachin Mob Meeting in Apalachin, New York.In this first of a two-part series, we discuss the beginning of Barbara's mob career including: His birth in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy His immigration to the United States in 1921 His first jobs in …
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 3 of Episode 57, we continue our look into the history of deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, last week we talked about Franky Carrillo's fight for justice against the Lynwood Vikings, as well as their deep deeded corruption, that allowed them to abuse and harass department members all the way up an…
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 2 of Episode 57, we continue our look into the history of Deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, last week we talked about the rise of the first deputy gangs in the department, the culture that this created in the department, and how the Lynwood Vikings rose to prominence and carried it on, leading to …
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 1 of Episode 57, we delve into the formation and early history of deputy gangs in the L.A County Sheriff's Department, including the culture within the Sheriff's department that allowed the formation of these groups to start, the very first deputy gangs to form up in the 1970's, like the Little Devils and Cavemen, wh…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 56, we delve into the story of gangland involvement in the lives and murders of both Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., we'll talk about their backgrounds, and how they both were put in a position to headline the most notorious rap feud of all time, their rise to the top, that would see Tupac turn into somewha…
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In this episode, we finish the series on the Cerrito Crime Family of the American Cosa Nostra who operated in and around San Jose, California, and who were a significant entity controlling organized crime in the San Jose area for many decades beginning around the 1940’s and were in existence until at least the 1990’s or early 2000’s. While we cover…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 55, we delve into the life of infamous Colombian drug lord, Griselda Blanco, she came up hard on the streets of Medellin, running away from home and allegedly committing her first murder at just 11 years old, eventually moving to Queens New York, where she started building her drug empire, currying favor in what w…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 54, We delve into the history of the Giannini Crew, a mob farm team closely connected to the Bonnano family that ran the streets of Queens throughout the 70's, 80's, and to a lesser extent, the 90's, they were a group of young, rough and tumble, Sicilian American youths, most of whom were the sons and nephews of o…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 53, we delve into the complete true story behind The Wire, one of the greatest TV shows of all time, let alone in the crime genre, we'll be covering the real life inspiration behind not only the shows famed drug dealers, but also those of the police, the politicians, and one very famous stick up boy, more then tha…
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 2 of Episode 52, we finish up our look into the Latin Kings, last week we talked about the formation of the gang, how it came to prominence, and how it evolved under new leadership, but this week, we talk about the spread of the Latin Kings across the United States, as well as their evolution to a transnational organ…
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 1 of Episode 52, we delve into the history of the Latin Kings, one of the largest Latino and Caribbean street gangs in the world, and today we'll be talking about the formation of the gang, including how a group of youth gangs came together in the mid 1950's to create the Kings, how they spread into almost every area…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 51, we delve into the story of Agha Hasan Abedi and The Bank Of Credit and Commerce International, which has been described as one of the biggest banking scandals in history, including fraud and money laundering. at it's height, BCCI collected more than $20 billion dollars in deposits, and a good case can be made,…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 50, We delve into the History of the Genovese Family's New Jersey faction, a sub-group within the family that would go on to include some of their most powerful members, they were deeply embedded in the family's history from the beginning, getting their start under early boss Joe Masseria, but it was members like …
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 49, we delve into the life of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, one of the most notorious Chinese gangsters in US history, who ran San Francisco's Chinatown, he came up as a member of a juvenile Chinatown gang known as the Hop Sing Boys, evantually becoming a higher up, giving him the platform to become the second in com…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 48, we delve into the life of Manuel Noriega, a former Panamanian dictator, politician, and military officer, who served as the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989, more than that however, Noriega would amass a personal fortune through his drug trafficking operations, and even traded arms on behalf of the U…
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 2 of Episode 47, We finish up our dive into the world of organized crime in the Golden Triangle region, last week, we covered the extensive drug cultivation and trafficking that happens in the region, but this week,, we'll delve into the other rackets being carried out in the region that serve to prop up the criminal…
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 1 of Episode 47, We delve into the history of drug production and trafficking in the Southeast Asian Region known as the Golden Triangle, we'll talk about the history of how opium cultivation started in the region, how it became profitable, the rise of militia's in the area's drug trafficking, and even the story of o…
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In the second episode of this multi-part series, we cover Angelo Bruno, Boss of the Philadelphia Mafia during the "Golden Age" of the Philadelphia Cosa Nostra from the years 1960-1969.We recap Bruno's ascension to Boss of the Philly Mob during 1959 when a dispute between himself and Acting Boss Antonio "Mr. Mig" Pollina, along with support from Bru…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 46, We delve into the life of Carlo Gambino, former boss of the Gambino family for nearly 20 years, he came up working for both the D'Aquila and Masseria mob organizations, before being made a capo in the Mangano family, following the creation of the 5 families, he continued to garner power, becoming Albert Anasta…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 45, we delve into the story of the Pizza Connection, one of the biggest drug trafficking rings to ever hit the US, but it would really touch almost every part of the globe, it would see Asian morphine processed into heroin in Italian labs, by French scientists, before being smuggled into the US, while Colombian co…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 44, we delve into the history of MS-13, really one of the most notorious Latino gangs in the US and possibly even the world, and though they got their start in Los Angeles in the mid to late 1970's as a group of satanic stoners, they have since been able to foster a considerable presence in the US, and have essent…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 43, we delve into the Rap Feud turned deadly street conflict between Memphis rappers Yo Gotti and Young Dolph, they both came up with connections to the notorious Memphis gang scene, and when they collided at the peak of their careers, it would create a story that culminated in diss tracks, shot up SUV's, attempte…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 42, we delve into the life of Joseph Massino, former boss of the Bonnano family from 1991 until 2004, he rose quickly through the family under the tutelage of Philip "Rusty" Rastelli, and by 1981 was really running the family on his behalf, and over the course of his tenure, Massino would prove to be one of the la…
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 2 of Episode 41, we talk about the reign of Joseph Zerilli, which would act as a gold age for the family, how the Tocco dynasty retook the throne, and how the Giacolone dynasty finally reached the top, I hope everyone enjoys today's episode and tunes back in next week for Episode 42. PLEASE give us a follow on our so…
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We cover instances of FBI wiretaps picking up mobster conversations related to both the FBI in the early 1960's and the Kennedy brothers pre-and-post JFK's assassination. We share and help you interpret excerpts from the 1978-1979 Senate report entitled, "House Select Committee on Assassinations: Investigation of the Assassination of President John…
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Send us a Text Message. On Part 1 of Episode 41, we delve into the formation and early history of the Detroit Partnership, it all started in the late 19th century with a man named Pietro Mirabile, and after about 50 years, multiple gangland conflicts, and several power shifts in Detroit, the family would gain some organization with the rise of a ma…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 40, we delve into the story of Sergeant Wayne Jenkins and The Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force, one of the most corrupt police units possibly to ever have run the streets, before being put in charge of the task force, Jenkins regularly engaged in police brutality, the robbing of citizens, and running drugs on the si…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 39 we delve into life of "Cadillac" Frank Salemme, former boss of the Patriarca Family, who came up as a high end enforcer and evantually wager war on the family's old guard, but his true claim to fame is that despite the fact that he was only half Italian, he still managed to rise to the upper echelons of organiz…
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In today’s episode, we’ve recorded an amazing interview with Jeff Canarsie, the host of Mob Talk Radio. I’m really excited and honestly very appreciative that this guest was able to take time out of their busy life to sit and talk with me for a few hours to talk about his life, his show, and much more. In the interview, we discuss a range of topics…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 38 we delve into the life of John "White Devil" Willis, a white guy from Dorchester Massachusetts that became a high ranking member of Boston's Chinese mob, before building a drug trafficking network that would be his downfall, i hope everybody enjoys today's episode and tunes back in next week for Episode 39 PLEA…
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Send us a Text Message. On Episode 37, we delve into the history of The Philadelphia Black mafia, one of/ if not the most successful African American crime syndicate of it's time, and possibly ever, and even though they started as a small criminal collective, by their height of operations in the early 70's until the early 80's, they managed to cons…
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